1. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gathered leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the West Bank to discuss Israel's decision to end a 10-month moratorium on settlement construction.

2. This is a visit to Brazil is the Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met yesterday in the Palestinian diaspora and the local Arab ambassador to Brazil, said this position.

3. ( 1 ) Fifteen years after Oslo supposedly ended the state of war , four years after Mahmoud Abbas took over and supposedly improved on Arafat ' s abysmal record , the PLO publicly maintains it remains at war with Israel .